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Religious Places

Abbey and Monastery on or near mountain

Bhutan

Paro Taktsang

Monastery (Bhutan)

• Paro Taktsang (also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest) at 27°29′30.88″N 89°21′48.56″E. Location map available for District "Bhutan Paro", but no relief map.

England

Kirkstall

Reading

York Minster

English abbeys (the United Kingdom)

Kirkstall Abbey Kirkstall Kirkstall (West Yorkshire)	Reading Abbey Reading Reading (Reading, Berkshire)	York Minster DutchTreat/Projects/Places (East Riding of Yorkshire)
no map	Reading Town Centre

• York Minster see statue for Roman Emperor Constantine the Great proclaimed Emperor at York in 306 AD.

France

Fontevraud

Saint-Martin-du-Canigou

Clairvaux

Hautecombe

French abbeys (France)

Clairvaux Abbey Clairvaux Clairvaux (Grand Est)	Fontevraud Abbey Fontevraud Fontevraud (Pays de la Loire)	Hautecombe Abbey Hautecombe Hautecombe (Rhône-Alpes)
map of France	close-up map, no location map	no map
Abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou Saint-Martin-du-Canigou Saint-Martin-du-Canigou (Occitanie)
no map

Greece

• Meteora 24 monasteries, most on tops of rock formations

Germany and Luxembourg

Altmünster

Altmünster (Luxembourg)

Altmünster Abbey (no infobox)

• see Category:Germany location map modules and Category:Luxembourg location map modules

Hungary

• Belvárosi plábániatemplom in Belváros OSM map

• Franciscan Friary, Baja

Italy

• • Florance Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo
  • Florance Villa del Trebbio in Module:Location map/data/Italy North
  • Turin Basilica of Superga

Japan

• Meiji Shrine Is this related to the 100 year old Meiji Jingu urban forest?

Switzerland

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  Saint Gall

  Saint Gall (Canton of St. Gallen)

Abbey of Saint Gall in Module:Location map/data/Canton of St. Gallen

• More at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_monastery and List of Carolingian monasteries

Tibet

• Lenggu Monastery on Ge'nyen Massif mountain where Christine Boskoff died in 2006

Mapping hints

• For Location Map see options at Category:Location map modules by country

Note, no map support in Template:Infobox religious building and Template:Infobox church

Hiking

Alps

• Start in Germany at Tegernsee Lake, route winds its way through Austria’s Tirol along Achensee Lake and across Zillertal Valley to Sterzing, Italy.[1]

• Bavarian Alps : Berchtesgaden/Berchtesgaden National Park, Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen/Zugspitze

• Jungfraujoch railway station, highest railway station in Europe. See pictures of the Sphinx Observatory above the Aletsch Glacier. Terminal point for the Jungfrau Railway. See List of mountain railways in Switzerland.

• Zinal 46°08′N 7°37′E in the Val de Zinal, a valley running from the Zinal Glacier, north of Dent Blanche to the village of Ayer, part of the Val d'Anniviers 46°12′N 7°30′E. With the Dent Blanche, four additional 4,000-metre (13,120 ft) peaks are located around the valley: Bishorn, Weisshorn, Zinalrothorn, and Ober Gabelhorn. itsallabouttheverical 2012-10-17

• Cadini di Misurina, Dolomites : Auronzo di Cadore Tre Cime di Lavaredo Lake Misurina, town Cortina d'Ampezzo; path Tre Croci Pass (Cortina to Auronzo), road

• Peillon, France - mountaintop town

Croatia

• Krk, island in Adriac with mountains, popular hiking spot

England

• Blencathra highest point is Hallsfell Top. Mountain bought by "Friends of Blencathra" a group of locals intended to buy it to keep it free, open to all. Their fund raising failed. The property went off the market. Is place related to "On stern Blencartha's perilous height" of Wordsworth?
• Happisburgh Lifeboat Station, see erosion problem and boats used in rescues. Should lead show boats or building?
• Lake District National Park, four miles northwest of Ambleside in Cumbia. "Nestled in a dramatic low fells backdrop, the Vale of Grasmere" from Wordsworth
• Lakeland Fells, use Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells by Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) author, all hand drawn maps!
• Historic villages travel guides:
  • The Face of Britain series with cover designs by Brian Batsford. "The Villages of England by A.K. Wickham was first published by B.T. Batsford in 1932. The dust jacket illustration of the village of Kersey in Suffolk by Brian Cook". The Villages of England Notebook. by Batsford. Pavilion Books owns the Batsford Press imprint?
• Poundbury in Dorset, small urban village, planned community
• St Neot, Cornwall with 17th century festival
• The Ridgeway

France and Italy

• Via Francigena - ancient road starts in Canterberry, England. Mainly in France and Italy. Takes around three months to walk the length.

India

• Roopkund known as Skeleton Lake and mountain Nanda Devi from New Yorker December 2020.

Ireland

• Dunluce Castle see the suspensition bridge near by going over the sea.

Japan

• Mount Ishizuchi, annual climb on 1 July, check statement "every year on July 1, and women are forbidden from climbing the mountain on this day". According to NHK World News on 2021-08-18 women are allowed.
• Marugame Castle, 2 hours by train from Osaka, see fine stone walls
• Misato, Kumamoto, number one stone steps in Japan, 3333 steps over 2 km

Philippines

• Taal Volcano, 50 km south of Manila, easiest route Daang Kastila (Spanish Trail)

Poland

• Giewont peak near Zakopane in Tatra Mountains

Portugal

• Curral das Freiras "Nun's Valley" in Funchal, named after women and children sought fregue during French privateer attack.

Scotland

• Gigha island

Spain

• Atlas de l'itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne, par Alexandre de Laborde (1808) by Alexandre de Laborde. Background description from article on Laborde and view the scans for volume one of Itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne. Copies held in Biblioteca Nacional - Madrid and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

Laborde took advantage of some enforced leisure to assemble a team of artists and writers— among whom his friend Chateaubriand — to see through the press two massive works on Spain, the Itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne (1809, five volumes and an atlas) and the Voyage pittoresque et historique en Espagne (1807–1818, four volumes in-folio); the Voyage pittoresque, realised with care and containing some nine hundred engravings, proved a serious drain on his finances.

Wales

• Snowdon mountain and Snowdon Massif, a local village was flooded to hold the reservoir for Liverpool

Castles

Croatia

• Medvedgrad

England

• Balmoral Castle in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Near near the village of Crathie
• Hever Castle from Tudor Period, used by Anne Boleyn, 20 miles west of London
• Castle Howard

France

Fort-la-Latte

Château du Guildo

Château de Cirey

Northeast Brittany (France)

List of castles in France

Région Bretagne, Département Côtes-d'Armor

• Fort-la-Latte castle in the northeast of Brittany (missing maps) located at 48°40′06″N 2°17′04″W
• fr:Château du Guildo in French, needs translation, located at 48°34′29″N 2°12′24″W

Région Grand Est, Département Haute-Marne

• fr:Château de Cirey in French, needs translation, located at 48°19′47″N 4°56′23″E

Region: UNKNOWN

• Château de Montségur, location of Pays_cathare

Italy

• Il castello di Pizzo castle built by Ferdinand I of Aragon of the Aragonese in the 15th century in Pizzo, Calabria, Italy.

Romania

• Corvin Castle

Scotland

• Mount Stuart House

United States

• Point Breeze (estate) owned by Joseph Bonaparte, Bordentown, NJ

Bridges and Canals

Croatia

• Pelješac Bridge opened 2022

England

• Dundas Aqueduct in Somerset for B and A canal

  

  Dundas Aqueduct

• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on Ellesmere Canal by Thomas Telford

Iran

• Tabiat Bridge in Tehran

  

  Tabiat Bridge

Poland

• Elbląg Canal included planes design based on Morris Canal in New Jersey, USA

Spain

List of Roman bridges

• Alcántara Bridge in Alcántara

  

  Alcántara Bridge

• Alconétar Bridge in Extremadura region
• Ponte Vella in Ourense
• Puente de Alcántara in Toledo, Spain